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But where, in the whirlpool of the New World, would this Michel Menko disappear? and how could he find him? The days passed; and Zilah had acquired almost the certainty that Menko had not embarked at Havre. Perhaps he had not quitted Europe. He might, some day or another, in spite of what the valet had said, reappear in Paris; and then
Angelo Valla you know him Manin's former minister " "Yes, I know," said Count Josef, with his enigmatical smile. "Valla told me of Menko's arrest. I knew that Menko had left Paris, and I was very anxious to find where he had gone. Valla learned, at the Italian embassy in Paris, of the affair of this Labanoff and of the real or apparent complicity of Michel Menko; and he told me about it.
I fight tomorrow with Count M. If you do not see me again, pray for the soul of Varhely." Count Varhely had sent this despatch before going to keep his appointment with Michel Menko. It had been arranged that they were to fight in a field near Pistoja. Some peasant women, who were braiding straw hats, laughed as they saw the men pass by.
Menko made him sit down by his side upon a divan, and he noticed that an extraordinary fever seemed to burn in the blue eyes of his friend. "I learned that you had returned from London," said Labanoff; "and, as I was leaving Paris, I wished to see you before my departure. It is possible that we may never see each other again." "Why?" "I am going to St. Petersburg on pressing business."
The name of Prince Andras Zilah was traced in clear, firm handwriting, and, in the left-hand corner, Michel Menko had written, in Hungarian characters: "Very important! With the expression of my excuses and my sorrow." And below, the signature "Menko Mihaly." The domestic was still standing there, hat in hand.
Besides, I long to be on the move; Paris, London, the world, in short, bores me, bores me, bores me!" "The fact is, it is stupid, egotistical and cowardly," responded Labanoff. He again held out to Menko his nervous hand, burning, like his blue eyes, with fever. "Farewell!" he said. "No, no, 'au revoir'!" "'Au revoir' be it then. I will let you know what has become of me." "And where you are?"
Had Michel been before him, Andras would have seized the young man by the throat, and strangled him on the spot; but, when he reached the Rue d'Aumale, he did not find Menko. "The Count left town yesterday," said the servant, in answer to his question. "Yesterday! Where has he gone?" "The Count must have taken the steamer to-day at Havre for New York.
Jacquemin would then give an explanation; for of reparation Zilah thought little. And yet, full of anger, and not having Menko before him, he longed to punish some one; he wished, that, having been made to suffer so himself, some one should expiate his pain.
The Czar has been appealed to, and he does not say no." "Ah! that is good news," she said. "He must be greatly bored at Maisons; poor Vogotzine!" "He smokes, drinks, takes the dogs out " The dogs! Marsa started. Those hounds would survive Menko, herself, the love which she now tasted as the one joy of her life! Mechanically her lips murmured, too low to be heard: "Ortog! Bundas!"
In short, Count Menko is connected in some way, I don't know how, with this Labanoff. He went to Poland to join him, and the Russian police seized him. I think myself that they were quite right in their action." "Possibly," said Varhely; "but I do not care to discuss the right of the Russian police to defend themselves or the Czar.
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